Starts from the beginning of God's creating the world, through the beginnings of the people of Israel, their descent into Egypt, and the giving of the Torah at Mount Sinai. It ends with the death of Moses, just before the people of Israel cross to the promised land of Canaan. Interspersed in the narrative are the specific teachings (religious obligations and civil laws) given explicitly (i.e. Ten Commandments) or implicitly embedded in the narrative (as in Exodus 12 and 13 laws of the celebration of Passover).

In Hebrew, the five books of the Torah are identified by the incipits in each book and the common English names for the books are derived from the Greek Septuagint and reflect the essential theme of each book:

• B?reshit (???????????, literally "In the beginning") -- Genesis, from ??????? (Génesis, "Creation")

• Sh?mot (???????, literally "Names") -- Exodus, from ?????? (Éxodos, "Exit")

• Vayikra (??????????, literally "And He called") -- Leviticus, from ????????? (Leuitikón, "Relating to the Levites")

• B?midbar (???????????, literally "In the desert [of]") -- Numbers, from ??????? (Arithmoí, "Numbers")

• D?varim (?????????, literally "Things" or "Words") -- Deuteronomy, from ????????????? (Deuteronómion, "Second-Law

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The King James Version (KJV) is the world's most widely known Bible translation, using early 17th-century English. Its powerful, majestic style has made it a literary classic, with many of its phrases and expressions embedded in the English language.

From Wikipedia: The King James Version (KJV), commonly known as the Authorized Version (AV) or King James Bible (KJB), is an English translation of the Christian Bible for the Church of England begun in 1604 and completed in 1611.

In January 1604, King James VI and I convened the Hampton Court Conference where a new English version was conceived in response to the perceived problems of the earlier translations as detected by the Puritans.

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